The cited article from The Pillar portal (March 20, 2026) provides a news roundup from the post-conciliar structures, reporting without condemnation on actions taken by the current antipope, “Pope Leo XIV,” and other officials of the conciliar sect. It mentions a planned October gathering for “synodal discernment” on the heterodox document *Amoris laetitia*, a Vatican financial trial involving “Cardinal” Becciu, the sect’s diplomatic engagement with Hindu nationalists, a subservient ruling before a secular EU court, and a feature on a shrine. The article’s tone is that of routine reporting, treating the authority of the antipope and his hierarchy as legitimate and their actions as ordinary ecclesiastical business. This constitutes a profound spiritual and theological error, as it normalizes the systematic apostasy of the post-Vatican II “Church” and obscures the stark contrast between its modernist program and the immutable Catholic Faith.
The Synod on Amoris laetitia: A Direct Repudiation of Catholic Doctrine
The announcement that “Pope Leo XIV” will convene a gathering for “synodal discernment” on *Amoris laetitia* is presented as a standard pastoral initiative. This is a scandalous omission of the document’s explicit heresies. *Amoris laetitia* teaches that Catholics in objective, adulterous “irregular unions” may receive Holy Communion, and that grace can operate in such situations without the necessity of contrition and sacramental confession. This directly contravenes:
* The Council of Trent’s decree on the Eucharist, which anathematizes those who deny that sacramental confession is necessary for mortal sinners (Sess. XIII, can. 9).
* Pope Pius IX’s *Syllabus of Errors*, which condemns the proposition that “the Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21) and that “the obligation by which Catholic teachers and authors are strictly bound is confined to those things only which are proposed to universal belief as dogmas of faith by the infallible judgment of the Church” (Error 22). The very notion of “discernment” that could override Trent’s canons is a modernist infiltration.
* St. Pius X’s encyclical *Pascendi Dominici gregis*, which condemned the Modernist error that “dogmas are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (condemned proposition 22 in *Lamentabili sane exitu*).
The article’s silence on these doctrinal catastrophes is complicity in apostasy. By framing the synod as “discernment,” it employs the naturalistic, evolutionary language of Modernism, where truth is a “process” rather than an immutable deposit. The pre-conciliar Magisterium taught that the Church’s doctrine is traditio, a sacred trust to be guarded, not “discerned” into novelty. As Pius IX declared in *Quanta Cura*: “The divine constitution of the Church does not permit that the civil power should have any part in the management of the goods of the Church… [or] in the administration of the sacraments.”
The Financial Trial: The Corruption of the Conciliar Sect’s Temporal Power
Reporting on the Vatican appeal court’s order for a review of the financial trial investigation, the article treats this as a matter of internal administrative law. This ignores the theological significance of the scandal. The entire financial apparatus of the post-conciliar Vatican is a manifestation of the sect’s integration into the globalist, Masonic financial system, a direct violation of the Church’s traditional immunity and poverty. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, explicitly taught that Christ’s kingship demands that all human authority, including temporal, be ordered to God’s law: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar “Vatican City State” is a secular, diplomatic entity engaged in questionable investments and partnerships, a far cry from the spiritual sovereignty of the pre-1958 Church. The trial of “Cardinal” Becciu, a key figure in the Bergoglio-era financial reforms, exposes the rot at the heart of the sect’s earthly ambitions, which are purely naturalistic and worldly.
Diplomacy with Hindu Nationalists: The Abandonment of the Exclusive Reign of Christ
The mention of a Hindu nationalist party seeking inroads in the Syro-Malabar heartland is reported as geopolitical news. This is a chilling sign of the sect’s apostasy from the exclusive salvific mission of the Church. The pre-conciliar Church, following the dogma *Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus*, actively worked for the conversion of non-Catholics to the one true Church. Pius XI in *Quas Primas* stated Christ’s reign “encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”—meaning they must be brought into the Church. The Syllabus of Errors (Error 18) anathematizes the idea that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.” By engaging in “dialogue” and seeking “inroads” with Hindu nationalists—who are explicitly anti-Christian and anti-Catholic—the conciliar sect practices the indifferentism condemned by Pius IX. It treats false religions as legitimate paths to God, thereby denying the unique kingship of Christ and the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation.
Submission to the Secular EU Court: The Loss of Ecclesiastical Liberty
The report on the EU court ruling on an employment case sparked by a church tax levy is presented as a legal precedent. This illustrates the complete subjugation of the conciliar structures to secular, anti-Catholic power. The Syllabus of Errors systematically condemns every aspect of this subjugation:
* Error 19: “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church.”
* Error 24: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect.”
* Error 44: “The civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government… it can pass judgment on the instructions issued for the guidance of consciences.”
* Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”
By accepting the jurisdiction of a secular EU court in a matter touching on Church governance and taxation, the conciliar hierarchy explicitly rejects the Church’s innate right to freedom from state control, as defined by Pius IX and Leo XIII. This is the logical outcome of the “separation of Church and State” heresy, which the Syllabus condemned as an error. The pre-conciliar Church would have refused such jurisdiction outright, asserting its own rights based on its divine foundation.
The Shrine: Sentimentalism Replacing Sacrificial Piety
The feature on the “Steeped in history, Shrine of St. Joseph” is presented as devotional content. In the context of the conciliar sect, such shrines are centers of sentimental, emotional religiosity stripped of the sacrificial, propitiatory, and dogmatic substance of Catholic worship. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, explained that Christ’s kingdom is spiritual and entered through repentance, faith, and baptism—not through mere visits to shrines. The post-conciliar emphasis on “encounter,” “experience,” and “pilgrimage” as ends in themselves reflects the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X: the reduction of religion to a subjective, immanent feeling rather than an objective, supernatural revelation demanding assent and obedience. The true veneration of St. Joseph, as a just man and foster-father of the God-Man, must be rooted in the dogmas of the Incarnation and the Holy Family’s role in salvation history—dogmas that the conciliar sect’s ambiguous language and ecumenical context constantly undermine.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Systematic Erasure of the Supernatural
Across all these reports, the most grave omission is the complete absence of any supernatural perspective. There is no mention of:
* The state of souls (grace, mortal sin, justification).
* The necessity of the sacraments for salvation (especially confession and extreme unction).
* The reality of Hell and the final judgment.
* The duty of Catholic rulers to publicly recognize Christ as King and legislate in conformity with His law (as Pius XI demanded).
* The absolute prohibition of any participation in false religions or their rites.
This silence is not neutrality; it is apostasy. It reflects the Modernist principle, condemned in *Lamentabili* (Proposition 20): “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God.” For the conciliar sect, religion is a human project of “dialogue,” “discernment,” and “peace-building” within a naturalistic framework. The pre-conciliar Church, taught by Pius IX, saw the world as a battlefield between the City of God and the City of Man, with the Church’s mission to convert nations to Christ the King. The Pillar’s article, by reporting these events as mere news, implicitly accepts the conciliar sect’s premise that its activities are legitimate Catholic governance. This is a theological lie of the highest order.
Conclusion: The Duty of Resistance
The article from The Pillar is a clear example of the “dumbing down” of Catholic consciousness. It presents the daily operations of the antipope and his collaborators as if they were the actions of a legitimate ecclesiastical authority. This is intellectual and spiritual complicity with the Antichurch. The true Catholic, armed with the unchanging doctrine of the pre-1958 Magisterium, must see these events for what they are: the public exercises of a sect that has fundamentally rejected the Faith. As the *Syllabus of Errors* (Error 80) condemned the idea that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization,” so too must we condemn the entire synodal process, the financial entanglements, the interreligious dialogues, and the secular submissions as manifestations of that same apostasy. The only legitimate response is total rejection and the confession of the integral Catholic Faith, outside of which there is no salvation.
Source:
The Friday Pillar Post – March 20, 2026 (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 20.03.2026